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gerardvila.bsky.social @gerardvila.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Maybe it was a demand for viruses be liberated? 000
gerardvila.bsky.social @gerardvila.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Depends on the situation. My dad, RIP, was the worst driver in France. He DIDN'T NOTICE every other traffic light. Our job as passengers was to yell "FEU ROUGE" at appropriate times. Listening would not have helped. (He gave up driving eventually.) 000
Reposted by @gerardvila.bsky.socialMassimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Did you know? The evolution of technology has made it possible to produce insulin without using animals. Original post 615637
gerardvila.bsky.social @gerardvila.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I think they're not really "stories". They're myths: attempts to understand the world by people with zero scientific knowledge. (Plus there's some good old-fashioned legends of course.) 010
gerardvila.bsky.social @gerardvila.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The difference is that the Greeks weren't doing it just for fun. Every so often they'd need those muscles on the battlefield (or to exit the battlefield in haste). 100
gerardvila.bsky.social @gerardvila.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Measuring tapes designed for carpentry or construction ... have a hook on the end to aid measuring. The hook is connected to the tape with loose rivets through oval holes, and can move a distance equal to its thickness, to provide both inside and outside measurements that are accurate. Wikipedia 000
gerardvila.bsky.social @gerardvila.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Also everyone KNEW that the wrong side was going to Hell no ifs no buts. And how could you be sure you'd picked the right side? 100
gerardvila.bsky.social @gerardvila.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Surely you jest. We may not enjoy life too much lately, but at least we don't have terrifying supernatural monsters turning up at unexpected moments. 110
Reposted by @gerardvila.bsky.socialDavid Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026If Burnham wants to really change the UK EU dynamic he has to primarily do so in Brussels, and break a 50-odd year taboo in doing so. Anything else means incremental progress at best. That's the blunt truth coming from many years of coffees. And the challenge. encompass-europe.com/comment/how-...encompass-europe.comHow to achieve UK aims in Brussels(a companion piece to everything Brussels really thinks about the UK) There are 27 countries present and permanently negotiating almost every policy area in Brussels. These are the member… 37212
Reposted by @gerardvila.bsky.socialMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Macron: “Brexit is the biggest lie of the last 30 years. “Those who said, "We will be richer" - eight points of GDP less ten years later. "”We will solve the problem of immigration" - it is more complicated than before. "”We are going to crush it in international trade" - it is worse.” 591321389
Reposted by @gerardvila.bsky.socialAlan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I wonder when Burnham or his advisors will stop and say I think we may have got ourselves into a hole with this 'legitimate concerns' agenda Maybe a bit of leadership to explain why we need immigrants would go someway to getting people to understand this and therefore help us grow our economy 0185
gerardvila.bsky.social @gerardvila.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I took a taxi in Paris once, driver was a lady with a little dog in the front seat. She told me she felt safer with the dog. 010
gerardvila.bsky.social @gerardvila.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Sure but you're not Flaubert. (This is not a problem: nobody else is or was or ever will be). 010
gerardvila.bsky.social @gerardvila.bsky.social · 25/09/2026🇫🇷 law rules out campaign contributions from companies, & there's lots of prosecutors waiting for a politician to make a wrong move. See Fillon (wife in fake job), Sarkozy (lots of stuff inc campaign finance), Le Pen (fake EU jobs, convicted but not disqualified). 20 c 🇫🇷 was MUCH more sleazy. 130
gerardvila.bsky.social @gerardvila.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Somehow I can't imagine Dickens doing that. I know Flaubert's solution was to YELL THE SENTENCE AS LOUD AS HE COULD!!! If it sounded OK, it went in. 111
gerardvila.bsky.social @gerardvila.bsky.social · 23/09/2026A Chaplin bio tells of a "tough guy" American going to a dangerous part of London to look for a fight - IIRC in the 1930s - but gave up seeing the small and scrawny locals. My 2 c: 1) Not surprising crime & deprivation happen together 2) You don't need terrific muscles to stick a knife in someone. 070
gerardvila.bsky.social @gerardvila.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I first thought you were saying you'd developed a passion for the details of hiring car rentals with driver. Slightly disappointed TBH, I was looking forward to learning about a new kind of mental aberration. 010
gerardvila.bsky.social @gerardvila.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Appreciate it sure, but don't forget that sometimes it's out to get you. Especially in places like the Faroes. 010
Reposted by @gerardvila.bsky.socialMia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026 'I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.' — Anne Frank 13246781381
gerardvila.bsky.social @gerardvila.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Took me a moment to get it - I thought he was insulting the cat at first. 010
gerardvila.bsky.social @gerardvila.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Replace "regular meals" by "unlimited nutritious food" - there were regular meals in concentration camps. Anyway my point was that the "real" people camping to the sound of wolves didn't have any choice. They weren't on holiday, and if things went wrong they probably wouldn't survive. 001
gerardvila.bsky.social @gerardvila.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Any one of the people making soup etc. would have killed to get regular meals, a heated home full of light, endless drinkable hot & cold water, & countless magical devices that washed your clothes, heated your food to any temperature, cleaned the floor & gave you infinite different shows to watch. 100
Reposted by @gerardvila.bsky.socialRae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Do you leave book reviews? If so, do you have a system? Do you record all the books that you read? #BookSky #WritingCommunity 3320047
gerardvila.bsky.social @gerardvila.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Or dictate your ramblings into a dictation app. 020
gerardvila.bsky.social @gerardvila.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Musk's Cybertruck "does not meet European Union pedestrian safety standards" (Wikipedia). In other words, if you're a pedestrian hit by a cybertruck, you're more likely to get crippled - or killed - than with other cars or trucks travelling at the same speed. 000
gerardvila.bsky.social @gerardvila.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I disagree. Most of the dystopian fiction I remember starts with 90% of humans dead (or more) & cities returning to the wild. You ain't seen nothing yet. 001
Reposted by @gerardvila.bsky.socialDave Stanley @davidwstanley.bsky.social · 03/09/2026He definitely has a point 7548721296
gerardvila.bsky.social @gerardvila.bsky.social · 03/09/2026(Forgot Richard the Lionheart stopping a crossbow bolt, my bad). 110
gerardvila.bsky.social @gerardvila.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Depends when you start counting. 1950? 1900? 1600? 500? 5000 BCE? I'm pretty sure the majority of kings, emperors, dictators & other dear leaders throughout history just died in their beds. EG England: 2 dead in battle (Harold Godwinson & Richard III), 1 execution (Charles I), the rest just fine. 110
gerardvila.bsky.social @gerardvila.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Sorry but I don't buy "usually". Mussolini & Hitler lost the war & paid the price. Franco cannily stayed out of the fight & died of natural causes - as did Lenin, Stalin, Mao & dozens of other dictators of various stripes. 100
gerardvila.bsky.social @gerardvila.bsky.social · 31/08/2026The cemeteries are full of irreplaceable people - Georges Clémenceau 000
Reposted by @gerardvila.bsky.socialMassimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 28/08/2026The Aizawa attractor, a particular case of the Lorenz attractor, has this system of differential equations: dx = (z-b) * x - d*y dy = d * x + (z-b) * y dz = c + a*z - z³/3 - x² + f * z * x³ Original post 1293
Reposted by @gerardvila.bsky.socialPetra Michaela @petramichaela.bsky.social · 23/08/2026“If we are to continue to exist, we will require more than intelligence. We will require wisdom.” David Attenborough, UN Champion of the Earth, has turned 100 years old this year. His words remind us that protecting the future of our planet remains in our handsstatic.klipy.comDavid Attenborough with Fabulous FrogsALT: David Attenborough with Fabulous Frogs 121948519
gerardvila.bsky.social @gerardvila.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Took me a while to understand. That is a TRAIN she is jumping on the top of. That means the first jump she misses will put her in a wheelchair for life, if not the grave. Like the guy who tried to replicate Belmondo's stunt on the roof of a Paris metro crossing the Seine at Bir-Hakeim bridge. 000
gerardvila.bsky.social @gerardvila.bsky.social · 15/08/2026You obviously haven't tried to read any German philosophers. Or 20 C French ones. 220
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gerardvila.bsky.social @gerardvila.bsky.social · 03/08/2026I've read War and Peace multiple times, including the original [with dictionary at hand], but never Anna Karenina. I've watched the Russian film version, it's brilliant. And I've started but not finished Proust & Les Misérables (but the latter's binding I have to repair first, it's a 19c edition). 000
Reposted by @gerardvila.bsky.socialThanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanh-neville.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I agree with @drsandman11.medsky.social: If you didn't look like this & doing everything you can to prevent people from dying during the pandemic, maybe think twice before judging Dr. Fauci. 352133112678
Reposted by @gerardvila.bsky.socialDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 30/07/2026Let’s be clear here, when scientists say mistakes were made at the start of the pandemic, we DO NOT mean that we did too much. We mean not socially distancing quickly enough, not making tests widely available, and not acknowledging COVID is airborne and distributing N95 masks to everyone. 23795432536
Reposted by @gerardvila.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/07/2026If I had to share just one lesson from my decades of teaching, it's that the best way to learn is by talking to someone who disagrees with you. 1432446666
